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Local Plan - 31,000 homes coming to Kirklees

Debbie Smith, who lives in one of the threatened houses and also operates a flower and wedding hire business from a rented shop on the existing access road, said she had been approached by someone who wanted to buy her shop but she told them she did not own it.

A Mirfield site earmarked for development where the applicant wants to demolish the middle of a row of terraces to create an access road

She said she had spoken to people who were doing testing on the site last year.

“I asked them and said are you in charge of this and they said they were,” she said.

“I said do you think you’re going to get planning and they said, ‘Yes, we’re certain we are’.

“It was their land.”

The development land off Old Bank Road, Mirfield, near the Thirsty Man pub.

Reports submitted with the application reveal the site was once mined for coal and there is potential instability which would have to be addressed before development could begin.

Kirklees Council officials have calculated that the developer would need to cough up more than £150,000 towards expanding school places in the area.

The application is likely to go before one of the council’s planning committees.